A KILLER-DILLER: GMO SOY MAKES FORMALDEHYDE IN OUR GUTS

Of
course only very pathologically damaged mothers would ever knowingly
feed their family formaldehyde. But that’s precisely what hundreds of
millions of families are unknowingly doing around the world every day. A
brilliant new scientific experiment has proven in a peer-reviewed study
published in the journal, Agricultural Sciences,
that human consumption of GMO soy creates a cumulative toxic effect:
the accumulation of formaldehyde in the body, along with a dramatic
reduction of a specific anti-oxidant essential to detoxify cells. For
humans or animals, eating GMO soy is tantamount to drinking a toxic
cocktail.

The study was carried
out by Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, an MIT-trained systems biologist, who
used CytoSolve, a new systems biology method to integrate 6,497 in vitro
and in vivo laboratory experiments, from 184 scientific institutions,
across 23 countries. The study revealed that there was a dramatic
accumulation of formaldehyde, a known Class 1 carcinogen, and a dramatic
depletion of glutathione, an anti-oxidant necessary for cellular
detoxification, in GMO soybeans and soy products.

What the study opens
in a dramatic way is the urgency of a fundamental recalibration of the
entire United States and EU testing procedure now used by the US and EU
government agencies when they make a decision that a given GMO
seed–Monsanto GMO corn or Syngenta GMO soybean or any other–is safe for
human or animal consumption.

The study has just been published in the peer-reviewed journal Agricultural Sciences.
It uses modern computational systems biology methods to reveal that
genetically engineered soy (the GMO tested) creates significant
disruption to the levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, and to
glutathione, an important anti-oxidant necessary for cellular
detoxification. A group of medical doctors and scientists reviewing
Ayyadurai’s study noted, “The computational results suggest substantial
difference in concentrations of formaldehyde and glutathione in the
genetically engineered soybean (GMO) tissues. These significant changes
in key biomarker concentrations could cause deleterious biological
impacts. The…results reveal how a ‘small,’ single recombinant DNA event
may create ‘large,’ unpredictable, systemic perturbations to molecular
systems equilibria. In light of such changes, it is clear to say that
GMOs and non-GMOS may not always be ‘substantially equivalent.’

Substantially equivalent?

How does the United
States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency responsible for
assuring the safety of the food we eat, currently test GMO seeds before
certifying them as safe for humans? Well, it doesn’t test them at all.
Run that by again slowly, you say? Not at all? How can this be?

In 1992, President
George H. W. Bush held a closed-door White House meeting with the top
leadership of Monsanto, the world’s largest GMO purveyor and maker of
the world’s best-selling weed-killed paired by contract to all its GMO
seeds. At that White House meeting Bush agreed to the Monsanto request
that there be no intrusive independent government tests of the health
and safety of its GMO seeds. The US President agreed to impose something
known as the Doctrine of Substantial Equivalence as the sole “test,”
supplemented by test results supplied by Monsanto or other GMO
companies.

What criterion do the
government agencies apply to GMO products under the Doctrine of
Substantial Equivalence? Simply, they compare if the GMO corn ear looks
like a non-GMO corn ear; if it smells like a non-GMO corn ear; if it
tastes like a non-GMO corn ear; if it feels like… In short, there are no
US FDA or US Department of Agriculture health and safety tests. It
would suggest that Monsanto and other GMO agribusiness giants might not
want genuine transparent testing of their GMOs for very good reason.
They have something very ugly to hide.

Since 1992, through
four different presidents—Bush Sr., Clinton, ‘Baby’ Bush, Obama—that
Doctrine of Substantial Equivalence has never been altered. To make
certain it is not, Monsanto former Vice President, Michael R. Taylor,
was named by President Obama to be FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods.
Taylor has had a long career covering up for Monsanto. In an earlier
stint at the FDA under President G.W.H. Bush in 1991, Taylor, then
Deputy Commissioner for Policy, signed the Federal Register notice
stating that milk from cows treated with Monsanto BGH growth hormones
did not have to be labeled as such. He also co-authored the FDA 1992
policy statement on genetically engineered plant foods that established
Monsanto’s desired Doctrine of Substantial Equivalence.

Dr. Ray Seidler, a
former senior Scientist with the US Environmental Protection Agency,
commenting on the new study stressed, “The discovery reported by Dr.
Ayyadurai reveals a new molecular paradigm associated with genetic
engineering that will require research to discover why, and how much
formaldehyde and glutathione concentration, and what other cellular
chemicals relevant to human and animal health, are altered. We need the
kinds of standards Dr. Ayyadurai demands to conduct such research.”

Seidler continued,
“Formaldehyde is a known class-1 carcinogen. Its elevated presence in
soybeans caused by a common genetic engineering event is alarming and
deserves immediate attention and action from the FDA and the Obama
administration. Soy is widely grown and consumed in the US, including by
infants fed baby food products, with 94% of soy grown here being
genetically engineered.”

Formaldehyde is used
as a disinfectant. It’s also used for preservation of biological
specimens, and for the embalming of human remains. It is commonly used
in nail hardeners and nail varnish. In September 2007, the European
Union banned the use of formaldehyde due to its carcinogenic properties
as a biocide, including embalming, under the Biocidal Products Directive
(98/8/EC). Now it’s being quietly produced in the consumption of GMO
soy by EU citizens and animals fed imported GMO soy “power feed,” which
is the vast majority of cattle and pigs in the EU today.

To stress, because of
the Doctrine of Substantial Equivalence approved by President Bush Sr.
at the request of Monsanto ince 1992, almost 100% of all soybeans grown
in the USA is GMO and produced highly toxic Class 1 carcinogen,
formaldehyde in the body of the human or animal.

The USA today is the
world’s leading producer and exporter of soybeans and soy meal used
around the world in “high-protein” animal feed mixes, or for direct
human consumption. The world’s second largest soybean grower, Argentina,
since the corrupt President Carlos Menem gave Monsanto exclusive
growing rights in the 1990’s, is today almost 100% GMO. The third major
grower, Brazil, is 85% GMO soy.

This means, simply
put, if you are one of hundreds of millions in the EU, USA or even
China, who consumes soybeans either as milk substitute or as a food, you
are eating a substance that is creating cumulative formaldehyde in your
system and at the same time, dramatically lessening the needed
production of the vital anti-oxidant that we need to detoxify our cells.
As the late great singer, guitarist and song-writer, Bo Diddley, would
say, eating GMO soy is a real “killer-diller.”